Client: City of Atlanta
Location: Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA, United States
Completion date: 2012
Artwork budget: $900,000
Project Team
Artist
Nikolas Hafermaas
ueberall
Artist
Jamie Barlow
Artist
Dan Goods
Artist
Daniel Massey
Other
Jim Hetherington
Artist
Gustavo Huber
Overview
The AirFIELD is a dynamic sculpture synched to real-time flight data reflecting the heartbeat of the world’s busiest air travel hub, the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Suspended in the center of the new International terminal, the 90’ long and 30’ wide (27.4m x 9.1m) data-driven art piece comprised of two intersecting sweeping forms evokes the wonder of flight.
Goals
To crate an experience which reflects actual air traffic of the world busiest airport. AirFIELD consists of 1,500 circular tiles suspended by 3,000 wires, connected to 81 circuit boards all linked back to a single computer server.The sculpture animates arrival and departure events with a system that uses a fluid-dynamics physics engine to generate dynamic visual behavior.
Process
Three artists collaborated to conceive and design this location based art installation. Over all design, data processing engineering and architectural design.